Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots in Creative Brainstorming: Review of Story Ideation and Invention Development
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Brainstorming, Chatbots, ChatGPT, Creativity, Ideation, Innovation, StorytellingAbstract
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have revolutionized human-computer interaction and offer unexplored opportunities for creative collaboration. The review aims at examining conversational AI chatbots use in supporting brainstorming to come up with story ideas and inventions. They analyse the cognitive mechanisms behind AI-assisted creativity, how chatbots can be implemented in the creative processes, and the theoretical models explaining their performance by systematic review of the recent literature. They discover that AI chatbots are helpful intellectual scaffolds, enabling divergent thinking, reducing creative blocks, and providing rapid iteration. However, the problems of originality, overdependence, and the nature of human-AI co-creativity persist. The review presents the available literature on chatbot brainstorming, summarizes the key benefits and weaknesses, and proposes the research future directions. They conclude that, despite the AI chatbot being a powerful tool to make humans more creative, it should be used to achieve the goal of understanding that the computer is a partner and not a creator.
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